Awards Quotes - Page 23

• Wearing a tuxedo isn't as simple as it sounds. I've been to a lot of award shows in Hollywood over the years and have seen some pretty sad tuxes. It's surprisingly easy to go off the rails.

  Paul Feig

  Simple, Years, Sound

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• Someone like Vincent Price or somebody like Christopher Lee, they never won an award, and it doesn't matter. They're cool.

  Nicolas Cage

  Matter

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• The Heisman is the biggest award I've ever won.

  Barry Sanders

  "Barry Sanders talks 'NCAA 13' cover". Interview with Jon Robinson, www.espn.com. April 17, 2012.

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• Actually, I always dreamed about getting a gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle in Olympic swimming. I always thought that would be the epic award in sports to get.

  Chris Klein

  Sports, Swimming, Epic

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• The MTV Video Awards were never about the video, but about the song. Most of the time it was just to glorify people for the wrong reason.

  Michel Gondry

  Song, Mtv, People

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• I always say the best applause you can get is when you walk from backstage up to your microphone at a concert. It's also nice to walk up to the mike at an awards show, and that applause is great, too, but the best is when your fans are cheering for you.

  Dierks Bentley

  Cheer, Nice, Fans

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• I'm a terrible interviewer. I'm not a journalist - although I have a Peabody Award - and I'm not really a late-night host. What I am is honest.

  Craig Ferguson

  Night, Honest, Host

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• The awards world can be ridiculous, but I'm not one to bash it. I love awards! When I've been nominated for Emmys and when I won my DGA Award, I couldn't have been happier. I always liked getting a gold star in class.

  Paul Feig

  Stars, Class, Gold

  "Q&A: Paul Feig". Interview with Stacey Wilson Hunt, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 20, 2011.

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• I don't need any more awards.

  Davy Jones

  Needs

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• In India I've been to all the award functions, but that was in Hindi; now it's in English so it's a much bigger scale.

  Anil Kapoor

  India, Hindi, Bigger

  "Question time". Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2009.

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• I recently had the opportunity to participate in 'Inc.''s first-ever 'Hire Power Awards' event in Washington, D.C. The event was a testament to the power of American entrepreneurship and the role that it plays in driving job creation and innovation in a wide array of industries.

  Karen Mills

  Jobs, Opportunity, Play

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• When you go to awards shows these days, you can walk through a room and they give you everything for free: sunglasses, guitars, stuff for the wife.

  Jordan Knight

  Guitar, Giving, Wife

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• Actors like to play bad guys because they're more fun. They also win more awards.

  Dean Norris

  Fun, Winning, Play

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• After I won the Tony Award, the film floodgates opened, so I was like a kid in a candy store.

  Dan Fogler

  Kids, Film, Stores

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• I've never been one to chase awards or anything like that, to be honest.

  Micky Dolenz

  Honest, Being Honest

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• I grew up as a sports fan, and I know that a hall of fame is very different than an award for being the best of the year. It's a nod to the longevity of our accomplishment.

  Chuck D

  Sports, Years, Accomplishment

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• My name is not only Archie Griffin, it's two-time Heisman trophy winner Archie Griffin. Once you win the award it's with you for the rest of your life, and I realize that and I'm proud of that. It changed my life.

  Archie Griffin

  Football, Winning, Names

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• I'd rather go to the White House Correspondents' dinner than any awards show.

  Scarlett Johansson

  White, House, Dinner

  Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 22, 2011.

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• I always look back to awards shows and think about being a kid watching them.

  Luke Bryan

  Kids, Thinking, Looks

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• I'm not that ambitious chick. I'm not chasing a cover of a magazine or an award. I've just never been that girl. I've always been very content with whatever God blessed me with and he's already blessed me with a lot.

  Yvette Nicole Brown

  Girl, Blessed, Ambitious

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's interesting, winning an Academy Award as a young man... life-changing, but I'm just me within that. It's been very helpful for my career, but I'm trying to stay on the path I was on before.

  Adrien Brody

  Life Changing, Winning, Men

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Y Tu Mama Tambien' is one of the first unrated movies to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. But many video stores won't take a movie that's not rated, so I had to make the movie an R.

  Alfonso Cuaron

  Video, Firsts, Mama

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• I don't want anyone to get seriously hurt. But I do watch awards shows to critique the clothes while I sit around eating chips in my sweat pants and in hopes of seeing some hilarious accidental nudity.

  Eliza Coupe

  Hurt, Sweat, Clothes

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Sometimes earning awards doesn't matter as much as earning revenue or profit, or having a good response from the audience. No matter how many awards you win, if you can't earn any profit from your movie, if the audience doesn't like it, then it doesn't matter how many awards you get.

  Stephen Chow

  Winning, Matter, Earning

  Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. April 20, 2005.

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• I'm an ensemble guy, I guess - that comes from the theater. If I ever won some kind of award someday, I imagine I'd try to be very gracious, but in the end, I just want to keep working. I don't see why that, if you just put your mind to it and keep sowing the right seeds, you can't keep doing the things you want to do.

  Garret Dillahunt

  Guy, Mind, Trying

  "The Contender Q&A: Garret Dillahunt". Interview with Paul Gaita, latimesblogs.latimes.com. December 17, 2009.

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